gtk 2.8 on Windows 98

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

Just wanted to check: is the statement by Tor Lillqvist at

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316878

the "last word" on this issue?  (The issue concerns gtk, cairo, 
and fonts on win98.)  Tor says -- or rather, asks:

"[W]hat this bug actually means is that GTK+ 2.8.* doesn't run 
on Win9x? (Which is known and more or less by design, but not 
really advertised.)"

I have a report from a user of my gtk app on win98 (in Polish) 
with a screenshot showing all glyphs in menus as little boxes. 
I recently updated to gtk 2.8.18 from 2.4.X.  I'm wondering 
whether I need to backdate to an earlier gtk version to support 
win98, or if there's any workaround?

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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC